Breaking Barriers

The Kiffness’ new video for their single ‘You Say You Love Me’ is a fun, quirky celebration of the Capetonian LGBT community. Shot in the streets of the Waterkant area, which is celebrated for being part of Cape Town’s legendary Pink Strip, when shooting wrapped the cast and crew received word about the tragic nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. Fittingly, they decided that they would dedicate the video to the victims of the senseless attack.

Absence of Love is an intimate and taut portrait of three lives: James and Michael, on the far side of a once passionate romance, and James and Samuel, estranged brothers, coming to terms with their father's death, a Baptist minister in the deep south. The film plays with time: the present, in which the story follows these characters as they form a complex love triangle; the past, through the window of childhood memory; and the love story, out of time and place. A richly textured film, Absence of Love viscerally captures the deep-rooted alienation of gay youth in the African American experience.

[Re]Defined is a drama set in Brooklyn, New York. About a teenager boy named Jae who begins to feel confused about his relationship with his childhood best friend. The two seem at odds as they try to navigate through their life and friendship.

The One You Never Forget | Directed by Morgan Fox, (USA, 2019, 8:11 min.)

The One You NeverForget packs an emotional punch in just nine minutes. A young boy, Carey (London Curtis), has a big day ahead—it’s his first school dance. Although he acts secretive about who he’s taking, or how he feels, it inspires his mother and father to think back on when they first fell for each other.

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